Tutubi

Using the Arts to empower and inform

Tutubi offers Arts Therapy to foster hope and healing, Arts Workshops to empower people emotionally and socially. Training to encourage professionals to develop and reflect on their work. Our sessions are run by facilitators from different but complementary fields and who are from a range of cultural backgrounds, drawing on the richness there is in diversity.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Tutubi will be facilitating training workshops with teachers and carers of people with disabilities, and therapeutic workshops with children with learning disabilities.The workshops will be held in the Kingdom of Bahrain in cooperation with the British Council and the Rehabilitation Institute of Active Learning.

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Tutubi has teamed up with Samsah, France in a continuing effort to provide services and support to victims of brain trauma and their families. Arts therapy workshops are held weekly with brain trauma victims in an effort to encourage self expression and self esteem.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Funded by the Arts Council of England and in partnership with the Claremont Project, Tutubi welcomes 2010 with a new theatre project, "Midsummer Madness". This is a partnership project that will bring together people in Canonbury from different generations and backgrounds. Participants will co-create a multi-ethnic summer “pantomime” at the Walter Sickert Centre. Creative participation will catalyse social cohesion, improve health and psychological well being and engender on-going social development. The project begins in February and closes in July with a free performance.

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

On the 12th of September, Isabelle Rodker and Paula Holme of Tutubi facilitated a workshop at Oxford University for the annual conference of the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth). Entitled "Lost in Translation", the workshop explored the theme of Bridging Cultures, looking at the complexities of applying Arts Therapies in Southeast Asia, combining Arts Therapy with photography and of integrating Art Therapy with Dramatherapy.

Who we are

Tutubi is a registered, non-profit organisation that uses the Arts to provide therapeutic and educational benefit to people in Europe and overseas.

What is Arts Therapy?

Arts Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that allows people to express and explore emotions creatively using the arts. The emphasis is on communicating through creativity rather than words, which can often be insufficient. It is an extremely useful, non-threatening way to work through psychological trauma and everyday difficulties.

What is Participatory Photograpy?

Participatory photography is photography taken by groups who would traditionally be the subjects of other people’s pictures. It enables them to record and reflect their own strengths and concerns, and can provide training in photography and media skills. Used with Arts Therapy, it is an effective way of empowering disenfranchised and marginalised people.

Arts Therapy and Participatory Photography

Tutubi has pioneered a unique way of working, combining Arts Therapy with Participatory Photography. Both approaches aim to be a catalyst for change. In Arts Therapy, this is aimed for primarily on a personal level, while in Participatory Photography this is encouraged at community level.

A group of women living with HIV in Cambodia took part in an Arts Therapy and Participatory Photography project. The workshops focused on creating a therapeutic environment in which the women could explore their feelings through movement, art, drama and photography. The project culminated in a slideshow of their photographs presented to those they wished to invite.

Arts for Arts' Sake

Tutubi Arts Workshops aim to teach people skills to help them emotionally, socially and financiallly. In Cambodia, Tutubi worked with a group of young disabled men and women to create an educational play exploring the human rights issues of people with disabilities. The play was performed regularly and produced an income for the troupe, who had previously been unemployed.